Ok. I see several misconceptions going on in this thread.
First off. I also agree that most HS students are going to intentionally bias something. However, I do believe that most HS teachers *are*. Since that's often where the HS students get their direction, it's naturally going to appear when they express themselves.
If every single "significant social event" covered in this years US history class was about gay rights, abortion rights, MLK marches, etc, then naturally that's what the students are going to put together in a video when asked to make one about significant social events, right? Doesn't require any intention to bias at all.
Additionally, Joph was asking if it was ok to edit it. My response is that it's presumably already been edited, right? Did a group of HS students make the entire thing? Or did HS students from around the country submit clips and then the Park Service edited them together into an 8 minute documentary? If the latter, then it's entirely possible that there were lots of submissions that included "conservative viewpoints", but that were not included in the final product because the Park Service (run by a Democratic administration at the time, right) may have chosen to only include issues and agendas favorable to the current administration. If that is the case (which I would strongly suspect), then it's not unreasonable at all for a Conservative administration to re-edit it to include images favorable to his side, right?
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
Finally, it's not about freedom of speech. You have every freedom to make a video documentary. You have every freedom to show that video. But you don't have some "right" to have it shown as an "official" documentary to every visitor to a public monument (paid for by the public's dime no less). That freedom is reserved for the Park Service, right? Ultimately, those who run the monument have the choice as to what is shown at the monument. It in no way infringes on anyone's freedom of speech if the video is changed, removed, replaced, etc. It's totally up to those who run the monument. Not a group of HS students.
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